@article{Birney01052004,
author = {Birney, Ewan and Andrews, T. Daniel and Bevan, Paul and Caccamo, Mario and Chen, Yuan and Clarke, Laura and Coates, Guy and Cuff, James and Curwen, Val and Cutts, Tim and Down, Thomas and Eyras, Eduardo and Fernandez-Suarez, Xose M. and Gane, Paul and Gibbins, Brian and Gilbert, James and Hammond, Martin and Hotz, Hans-Rudolf and Iyer, Vivek and Jekosch, Kerstin and Kahari, Andreas and Kasprzyk, Arek and Keefe, Damian and Keenan, Stephen and Lehvaslaiho, Heikki and McVicker, Graham and Melsopp, Craig and Meidl, Patrick and Mongin, Emmanuel and Pettett, Roger and Potter, Simon and Proctor, Glenn and Rae, Mark and Searle, Steve and Slater, Guy and Smedley, Damian and Smith, James and Spooner, Will and Stabenau, Arne and Stalker, James and Storey, Roy and Ureta-Vidal, Abel and Woodwark, K. Cara and Cameron, Graham and Durbin, Richard and Cox, Anthony and Hubbard, Tim and Clamp, Michele}, 
title = {An Overview of Ensembl},
volume = {14}, 
number = {5}, 
pages = {925-928}, 
year = {2004}, 
doi = {10.1101/gr.1860604}, 
abstract ={Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org/) is a bioinformatics project to organize biological information around the sequences of large genomes. It is a comprehensive source of stable automatic annotation of individual genomes, and of the synteny and orthology relationships between them. It is also a framework for integration of any biological data that can be mapped onto features derived from the genomic sequence. Ensembl is available as an interactive Web site, a set of flat files, and as a complete, portable open source software system for handling genomes. All data are provided without restriction, and code is freely available. Ensembl's aims are to continue to “widen” this biological integration to include other model organisms relevant to understanding human biology as they become available; to “deepen” this integration to provide an ever more seamless linkage between equivalent components in different species; and to provide further classification of functional elements in the genome that have been previously elusive.}, 
URL = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/14/5/925.abstract}, 
eprint = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/14/5/925.full.pdf+html}, 
journal = {Genome Research} 
}